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enShowcasing Interests, Abilities, and Activitieshttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/showcasing-interests-abilities-and-activities
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/phil%204%208.jpg" style="width: 210px; height: 135px; float: left;" />As I look back on my homeschooling years, it amazes me just how God directed our path. In my son&rsquo;s 8<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;grade year, I wanted to prepare him to attend the public high school, so I signed him up for two outside classes. As my husband had played on his high school basketball team, he knew how important this could be for our son, so we also signed up our teen for winter basketball, which a local homeschool organization offered. Our son enjoyed being part of the team, and this pleased my husband. &nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:23:58 +0000Carol1804 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsNew Trends to Check Out!http://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/new-trends-check-out
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<p>What do&nbsp;<a href="http://www.countryliving.com/women/inspirational-women/pastry-chef-rebecca-rather-0308#slide-1">Rebecca Rather</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/mix/index.ssf/people-events-stuff/ken_forkish_an_interview_with_the_man_behind_the_b.html">Ken Forkish</a>,&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://claracakes.com/main.html">Clara Polito</a>&nbsp;have in common? They are all part of what is now being called the Craft Culture. These are individuals who are following their passions and developing a craft. Whether it&rsquo;s baking, cooking, woodworking, or weaving, entrepreneurs are enjoying the satisfaction of using their talents and abilities to delight the rest of us.</p>
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</div></div></div>Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:50:12 +0000Becky1729 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsKids Need Praisehttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/kids-need-praise
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/Kids%20Need%20Praise%20-%20Maryann%20Gaver%20-%20HSLDA%20Blog%20-%20PC%20Marco%20Sama.png" style="width: 210px; height: 140px; float: left;" />Monday&nbsp;morning, fall 2002. After breakfast, the twins&nbsp;began&nbsp;their chores. I wrote&nbsp;a list of about three things for each&nbsp;boy&nbsp;on little yellow post-it notes&nbsp;a with a&nbsp;black marker&mdash;things like: Take out the trash; Fold laundry; Windex the sliding back door...</p>
<p>In the pre- school years, we had a chore chart on the fridge,&nbsp;but&nbsp;once the&nbsp;boys&nbsp;were in&nbsp;the&nbsp;elementary grades, I&nbsp;switched to post-it notes.</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:22:42 +0000mgaver1400 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsMusic, Movement and Learning!http://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/music-movement-and-learning
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<p>We love to sing and dance and move at our house. My kids are such tactile, kinesthetic (wiggly) learners! I continue to learn that rather than fight against this natural bent in their learning preferences to incorporate music and movement into my teaching times, be it acting out Bible stories or putting motions to poems, to singing directions during important routines and transition times.&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 19:31:32 +0000krisa1436 at http://www.hslda.org/cms3 Helpful Tips As Your Kids Study Musichttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/3-helpful-tips-your-kids-study-music
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<p>I kept my eyes on the&nbsp;highway as our&nbsp;old white van whizzed past&nbsp;small towns in&nbsp;Maryland&#39;s rolling&nbsp;suburbs.&nbsp;&nbsp;Monday night, 5:25, three years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;The twins had only recently gotten their driver&#39;s permits, so I decided to drive Austin&nbsp;to&nbsp;orchestra rehearsal&nbsp;that night.&nbsp;&nbsp;His&nbsp;straight-forward&nbsp;comment broke the silence. &nbsp;&quot;Mom --- I have to tell you ---&nbsp;I&#39;m quitting orchestra tonight...&quot;</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 29 May 2013 17:04:33 +0000mgaver1316 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsMusic, Part IIhttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/music-part-ii
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/Violin%20and%20sheet%20Music%20-%20Microsoft.jpg" style="width: 210px; float: left; height: 150px" />I&nbsp;sat outside the&nbsp;violin lesson that afternoon&nbsp;while I graded math papers and wondered, &quot;Is this worth it?&quot;&nbsp;I&nbsp;taxied&nbsp;the twins to lessons once a week, encouraged them to practice every morning, and sat through many&nbsp;long&nbsp;recitals&nbsp;and rehearsals ...&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Our&nbsp;family&nbsp;found that studying music is about so much more than simply learning songs. It takes a big commitment from the parents&nbsp;and the students!</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 21 May 2013 02:22:22 +0000mgaver1311 at http://www.hslda.org/cms Music, Part Ihttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/music-part-i
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<p>He&nbsp;positioned the&nbsp;guitar&nbsp;to&nbsp;the left side of&nbsp;his body&nbsp;and held&nbsp;its long&nbsp;neck&nbsp;like a&nbsp;hunter&nbsp;with his&nbsp;prized goose.&nbsp;He looked&nbsp;straight ahead,&nbsp;his new dress shoes creaking as&nbsp;he ascended the three&nbsp;steps&nbsp;to the&nbsp;vast stage which consisted of one&nbsp;lone&nbsp;chair.&nbsp;The audience was oddly&nbsp;silent except for one lady who coughed.&nbsp;I sat there in the&nbsp;second row&nbsp;and wondered&nbsp;if&nbsp;my nine-year-old son&nbsp;had&nbsp;practiced enough.&nbsp;This was his first recital....&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:49:46 +0000mgaver1301 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsTwelve Reasons To Start Homeschooling This Fallhttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/twelve-reasons-start-homeschooling-fall
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/Adventure%20and%20Explore%20-%20HSLDA_1.jpg" style="width: 210px; float: left; height: 171px" />Have you ever wondered what it would be like to teach at home?&nbsp;Are you new to the whole idea of homeschooling?&nbsp;Maybe you&#39;re in the information-gathering stage, or perhaps&nbsp;you&#39;re&nbsp;already&nbsp;planning to begin homeschooling&nbsp;after summer.</p>
<p>Maybe you&nbsp;and your husband&nbsp;are ready to start teaching your kindergartner, or maybe you&#39;re just curious about the whole&nbsp;idea.&nbsp;Perhaps&nbsp;you&#39;re taking your kids out of the public school system.&nbsp;If so -- fantastic!&nbsp;You won&#39;t regret it.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:27:24 +0000mgaver1274 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsMusic Mattershttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/music-matters
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/MP900448573.JPG" style="width: 210px; float: left; height: 150px" />Music is considered by many to be the universal language. This time of the year that is most evident. Familiar Christmas songs, secular and sacred, are playing everywhere you go. If you are like me, you are quickly drawn into a song, especially one that is meaningful or catchy. When I think of music, I think of heaven &ndash; angels saying (in song?), &ldquo;<em>Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts</em>&rdquo; around God&rsquo;s throne (<strong>Isaiah 6:3</strong>); and the angels who announced Christ&rsquo;s birth with &ldquo;<em>glory to God in the highest&hellip;</em>&rdquo; (<strong>Luke 2:14</strong>). Won&rsquo;t it be wonderful to some day be a part of that heavenly chorus?</p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:40:50 +0000Becky858 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsTeach Me To Listen, Part IIhttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/teach-me-listen-part-ii
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<p>It&#39;s a&nbsp;brilliant autumn morning, and I&#39;ve already got the coffee brewing, the screen door opened&nbsp;for some&nbsp;crisp air, and the dog fed. Jay&#39;s&nbsp;working at home today, so we&#39;ll have a light breakfast together..... a&nbsp;big change from the hectic mornings, say&nbsp;ten years ago,&nbsp;when I would juggle two skillets of&nbsp;French toast while I thought of chores to coordinate and lessons to&nbsp;teach. Mmm... I can still smell the cinnamon and maple; I can still hear two little boys bounding down the steps, bright-eyed and hungry.&nbsp;</p>
</div></div></div>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:58:27 +0000mgaver784 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsTeach Me To Listenhttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/teach-me-listen-0
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<p>Have you noticed how&nbsp;ultra<em>&nbsp;visual </em>our society is becoming?&nbsp;Everywhere you go, there&#39;s a screen of some sort&mdash;Walmart, the bank, even doctor&#39;s offices. And everywhere you go, there are younger and younger people with hand-held screens in their hands! Heads&nbsp;down, eyes glued to a screen. &nbsp;</p>
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</div></div></div>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 22:22:11 +0000mgaver781 at http://www.hslda.org/cmsExposing Our Kids to Beautiful Melodies & Great Hymnshttp://www.hslda.org/cms/?q=blog/exposing-our-kids-beautiful-melodies-great-hymns
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img alt="" src="/cms/sites/default/files/images/Exposing%20Our%20Kids%20to%20Beautiful%20Melodies%20and%20Great%20Hymns%20-%20HSLDA.jpg" style="width: 210px; float: left; height: 165px" />&nbsp;If there&#39;s one thing that students learn when studying music it&#39;s that<em><strong> timing is everything</strong></em>.&nbsp;Yes, technique is important, but if&nbsp;the timing is off ---&nbsp;it&#39;s major.&nbsp;And so it goes with homeschooling -- <em><strong>our time is limited&nbsp;when it comes to exposing our children to the great hymns </strong></em>of the faith, so my advice is to<em><strong> do it now while they&#39;re young.</strong></em></p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Music ministers to the soul and is so moving!&nbsp;And great hymns are not only inspiring --- but they&#39;ll be remembered for a lifetime ---making it&nbsp;important to allow kids to learn them while&nbsp;they&#39;re young.&nbsp;</p>
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